The Community of Eruistan is a colossal, safe nation, notable for its national health service, daily referendums, and irreverence towards religion. The compassionate, democratic population of 6.834 billion Eruians are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The government — a sprawling, bureaucracy-choked, socially-minded, outspoken morass — juggles the competing demands of Education, Environment, and Welfare. The average income tax rate is 95.9%.

The powerhouse Eruian economy, worth 716 trillion Nones a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector, which is highly specialized, is mostly made up of the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Information Technology. Average income is an impressive 104,831 Nones, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour', fistfighting vigilantes tend to suffer a lot of gunshot wounds, on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life, and an extra hand on the leg will give a horse-and-a-half of lead in a hundred jiffies on seven furlongs. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Eruistan's national animal is the Wolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.

Eruistan is ranked 10,604^th in the world and 49^th in Democratic Socialist Assembly for Highest Food Quality, scoring 157.15 on the Meeshlin-Starr Index.